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QUAINT AND HISTORIC FORTSOF NORTH AMERICA
COLONIAL MANSIONS
OF MARYLAND AND
DELAWARE
BY JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND
With sixty-five illustrations from originalphotographs. Large octavo. Handsomelybound in cloth. Gilt top. In a box.A Limited Edition, printed from typewhich has been distributed. $5.00 net.
The Outlook, N. Y. C.
“A book of elegance in form,
illustration, and subject.”
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
Publishers Philadelphia
QUAINT AND HISTORIC
FORTS OF
NORTH AMERICA
BY
JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND
AUTHOR OF
“COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE”
WITH SEVENTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS
J. B LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
1915
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1915
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
PREFACE
An account of the most famous fortifi